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Feminist Art Manifestos and Feminist Manifestos

A chronological list of feminist art manifestos and feminist manifestos which have had an impact on the women's art movement and the creation of feminist art.

This list was researched in preparation for the Feminist Art Seminars at the ICA on 30 March 2011, organised by Katy Deepwell as a collaboration between the ICA and n.paradoxa. Links are given, where known, to websites where the material is directly available.
(Updated July 2014, with thanks to Daisy Grove-Lafarge for her assistance) (Last update: September 2016)
Any comments or suggestions to add to this list: ktpress@ktpress.co.uk

A selection of 35 feminist art manifestos by contemporary women artists is now available in this ebook from KT press (2014)

Mina Loy ‘Feminist Manifesto’ (1914) unfinished and not published til 1982 in Mina Loy The Lost Lunar Baedeker. Sequel to her ‘Aphorisms for the Future’ (1914) in Bonnie Kime Scott (ed) The Gender of Modernism (1990)

Yvonne Rainer ‘No Manifesto’ (1965) reproduced in her book Feelings are Facts: A Life (MIT press, 2006). Or consult this website to read it.

'Manifesto of Women Students and Artists for Black Liberation' (WSABAL) (1970) written by Faith Ringgold and Michele Wallace. A legible picture of the original typescript of this manifesto can be found in Carey Lovelace's online essay 'Making it Together'.

Jo Freeman The BITCH Manifesto (1968, published 1970): An analysis of how strong independent women are viewed in our society. Also Archived on Chicago Women's Liberation Union archive website.

Michelle Moravec did a digital humanities analysis of the content of this list and the anthology at CAA 2015 'A Digital Analysis of Feminist Art Manifestos' talk given at College Art Association, February 4, 2015, for panel Mapping Feminist Art Networks available online at: Click here to find this

Any comments or suggestions to add to this list or give sources where known to other feminist art manifestos, please contact: ktpress@ktpress.co.uk